Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail red spotted Skillfully done

Skillfully done

but though he sits on the horse very nicely his proportions are a bit large for it

Strung with a rope on the back for hanging

Both sides are marked on the outside with what looks to be the number 109

Not at all my usual thing

Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail red spotted Skillfully doneI've always been a bit amazed by the prices these old folk art sock stocking cats command, but now having this one in my possession, I'm reluctant to let it go it's fabulous! It's a fairly old one, maybe 1920s 1930s or so?, and a fairly large one, too, with some holes in the stocking testifying to some moths or something nibbling away at it at some point unless it was a hole y stocking to begin with! Great button eyes, wonderful face with embroidered